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Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.
And she was Hillary Clinton. Imagine what you could do with someome that doesn't campaign with Henry Kissinger and have Bill Clinton as a husband.
True! I didn't mention that because there's no need to over-argue. When this specious idea that American voters would never choose a woman for President comes up, it's sufficient to point out that American voters chose a woman for President in 2016. Done, argument disposed of.
DNC partisans only seem to bring it up to try to tank the potential candidacy of center-left women like Ocasio Cortez, perhaps because she might win. Sanders pulled between 6 and 12% of his support in 2016 from Republican voters; that would've been more than enough to win the swing states and the electoral college vote. He and AOC are now out there stirring up excitement from that same crowd.
And, really, am I to believe that if the GQP nominated, say, Noem in 2028 that it'd make a damn bit of difference to its base that she's a woman?